All Stocked Up and Nowhere To Play

In defense of the tableless people who bought vinyl; 12 inch LP's also represent an artform that went away when CD's took over. Even though I mostly listen to CD's these days, it always depresses me a bit when I think about enjoying a nice gatefold album while listening to the music. My guess is that these people look forward to affording a turntable sometime down the road. The price tag of the new LP's will keep them in the poorhouse for a while however. 

Not too long ago an individual at a workplace had been informed that I was a user of vinyl and they approached me on the subject.

What did I learn, I now know there is a growing number of Vinyl Collectors who keep the LP in the Cellophane. They add the copies owned to Discography and track the Capitol Growth of their collection, this is a Tangible Property and is a equivalent to other currencies being invested in.

I have recently heard performers are getting the hard media interest to gain further momentum by signing copies of their merch'.

I once experienced something like this, I wanted to purchase a recently released Album and when going to pull the trigger, could not find it for sale. When it reappeared once more it was selling for £600. I'm lucky it wasn't a signed copy, who knows what the asking price would be.

I think we may be overthinking this just a bit when we communicate the benefits of vinyl to the uninitiated. 

For example, if we'd stop referring to record changers as "electro-mechanically engineeered record sequencer and retrieval systems"' and just refer to them as "record players" we might earn more Gen Z participation?

I guess it's a great way to sequester carbon. The T shirt industry might learn from this. 

Sounds about right.